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This book provides theoretically grounded, real-world advice for students beginning to learn how to conduct qualitative research. Drawing on the Erin Horvat's extensive experience teaching qualitative methods, the text uses students' questions and concerns as an organisational framework. Unlike many textbooks, this one provides students with an inside view into the most common dilemmas and challenges they will face as they start doing research. This easy-to-use book addresses the key phases of any ethnographic project from beginning a project and defining its aims, to data collection,...

Why do Blacks underperform in school? Researchers continue to pursue this question with vigor not only because Blacks currently lag behind Whites on a wide variety of educational indices but because the closing of the Black-White achievement gap has slowed and by some measures reversed during the last quarter of the 20th century. The social implications of the persistent educational 'gap' between Blacks and Whites are substantial. Black people's experience with poor school achievement and equally poor access to postsecondary education reduces their probability for achieving competitive...